Vista has speech recognition hole
Microsoft has admitted that speech recognition features in Vista could be hijacked so that a PC tells itself to delete files or folders. — Vista can respond to vocal commands and concern has been ra...
Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 34%; Media Grows 25%; Electronics and Other General Merchandise Grows 55%
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2006. — Operating cash flow was $702 million in 2006, compared with $733 million i...
Source: Microsoft Zune Phone In the Works
We've just received a sound tip that Microsoft is working on its very own phone to be branded under the Zune moniker. Our tipsters inform us that Microsoft execs are in meetings today hammering out d...
PAY PER POST: A startup's awful reality
The last bubble produced Startup, a painful documentary about hubris and disappointment at a well-funded New York internet venture called Govworks. On the whole, entrepreneurs are wiser, and more dis...
Flickr abandons the "old skool"
An email dropped into my in-box yesterday from Yahoo. Titled "Flickr: Update for Old Skool members", the message went on to explain that Yahoo was discontinuing the old email-based Flickr sign-in sys...
Verizon Wireless Launches Faster New Wireless Broadband Network
Verizon Wireless Enhances Wireless Broadband Network with EV-DO Revision A Technology — Media Contact Info — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless, the nation's leading wireless provider, today ann...
Latest Digg Payola Exposed!
Thanks to my friend and top Digg user #6 Karim Yergaliyev (supernova17), we bring to you the latest edition of 'Digg Payola Exposed!' — Note: I replaced the email addresses to reflect the Digg user ...
Real-world testing
User feedback is always an important part of our product development process, and for our latest version of Google Maps for mobile, we decided to put ourselves in the driver's seat. Hailing from Lond...
The 5 Immutable Laws of Persuasive Blogging
Blogging is a great way to grow a business, promote a cause, or spread new ideas, because when you take an educational approach to marketing, you gain the attention and trust of people who might other...
Replace the PC with your cellphone and Sony Ericsson Multimedia Cradle
Mobile phones are pretty small devices in their nature. And no matter how you try, it will never be as convenient to use as a normal PC or other full sized multimedia devices. The iPhone is the proo...
Screenshot Tour: How to crack a Windows password with Ophcrack Live CD
Extremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracked my Windows admin password when I tested it out [last] a few weeks ago, I thought it might be useful to throw together ...
What Comes Next
As most of you know, today is my last day as a fulltime employee at Microsoft. It's been an exciting 16+ years and all I can say is that I have been very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be i...
Google News Broken Just Now
When it rains, it pours: Google News presents itself empty to me at the moment. Search works, but there's just no news on the frontpage. Reto Meier in the forum says, "This has been happening on and...
Does network neutrality mean an end to BitTorrent throttling?
Now that BitTorrent is all grown up and has been given the keys to its parents' car, ISPs are faced with the difficult decision about how to handle the protocol. Companies from around the world have ...
A couple updates...
It's been awhile since I've posted and I wanted to get the New Year underway by clearing up a couple of perceptions that have arisen around attempts to manipulate (game) the listing of home page stori...
Social Networking Meets Local Search on SuperPages.com
DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—SuperPages.com, a product of Idearc Media Corp., today launched Reviewer of the Week as a step towards providing local content within a trusted social networking environment.
The Internet Will Collapse And It's The Fault Of People Pushing For Network Neutrality?
from the you-want-to-back-that-up? dept — Eleven years ago, Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of ethernet, wrote in a column that the internet would collapse in 1996 due to a variety of things that would ...
Pray per post
Last night, I moderated a panel on buzz and marketing at the Always On conference in New York and I started it off by slamming Pay Per Post, the infamous service that pays bloggers to write positive p...
Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time served
A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced two hackers to prison for breaking into millions of computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes. — The lead perpetrator was sentenced to tw...
Microsoft says Zune executive to leave the company
SEATTLE (Reuters) - A senior Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile , Research) executive who oversaw the launch of its Zune digital music player plans to leave the company, the world's largest softw...
Disney sells 1.3m films on iTunes
Downloads of Walt Disney films on the iTunes platform have risen sharply to more than 1.3m after only three months on sale, putting pressure on other Hollywood studios to join Apple's digital service....
Read me first
'Miserable failure' Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs — If you've had occasion to do a Google search on the phrase "miserable failure" over the past few years, you've p...
Widgetbox Releases Blidgets
Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — We covered Widgetbox, the widget market place, in June last year as well as during its DEMOfall 2006 launch. Today Widgetbox announced a new ...
Google Fensi: What is it?
An interesting discovery made through "Google in Your Language" gives us a few hints about an unknown service called "Fensi". The requested translations for the service make it sound like a social ne...
Seagate Offers Mass Storage for Phones
That's DAVE as in Digital Audio Video Experience, previously code-named "Crickett," a tech platform from the California-based storage company that aims to add 10-20GB of wireless storage to cellphones...
Looking For The Passion
I was at TheStreet.com's 10th anniversary party last night. We heard great speeches by co-founders Marty Peretz and Jim Cramer. But the line of the night award goes to Tom Clarke, the CEO of TheStre...
SI Acquires FanNation.com; Time Inc. To Buy Interest In Parent Company
You're reading it here first ... The Sports Illustrated Group will announce Thursday that it has an agreement to acquire sports social net FanNation.com and its underlying technology.